Microsoft helping finance AMD’s expansion into AI chips – Bloomberg News

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

The software giant is providing financial support to bolster AMD’s efforts, and working with the chipmaker on a homegrown Microsoft processor for AI workloads, code-named Athena, the report said.

(Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)